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The process of applying for college has increased with intensity in the past year. While the relief from acceptance letters and the conclusion from rejections make students feel satisfied, students receiving waitlist decisions from schools can not relate. Stuck in limbo due to the ever-changing holistic viewing processes and the influx in competition, current applications to colleges lean much towards more confusing and stressful emotions.

Covid era college apps; (or) why you’ve been waitlisted

Zioni Moore, News Editor
May 18, 2022
From gingerbread house making to wrapping presents, the holiday season includes loads of activities. However, Christmas tree shopping and decorating might not happen for thousands of Americans this year. Prices for both artificial and real trees will drastically increase for the 2021 holiday season.

‘Oh Christmas tree, no Christmas tree

Ren Lloyd, Reporter
December 13, 2021
The past two years have brought turbulence into millions of lives around the globe, beyond a doubt. Trauma touched the lives of hundreds of teens, invoking the needed increase in mental health services across the nation. Fulton County, encompassing the city of Atlanta, has increased its education budget to 1.4 billion to accommodate for the changing times and increased demand. However, Cobb County and other counties of the metro Atlanta area continue to handle the situation in a pre-pandemic way, despite the almost identical dependent makeup.

Cobb County in a standstill as GA districts fund mental health services

Zioni Moore, News editor
November 18, 2021
If authorized by the FDA, Molnupiravir could exist as the first oral antiviral treatment for the COVID-19 virus. This drug will likely reduce the risk of hospitalization or death for patients with mild or severe cases of COVID-19. With the new medicine on the way, the world will hopefully make its way back to normality.

COVID-19 treatment pill awaits approval

Erinn Gardner, Reporter
October 20, 2021
COVID-19 does not only affect human beings, contrary to popular belief. It can affect animals, varying from wild to even domestic pets. Most of the pets infected with the virus fully heal and do not even show any type of symptoms, to begin with. A mink, the first wild animal to catch COVID while the first pet to get COVID was a German Shepherd. COVID-19 has not only affected the pets physical health, but their mental health too, such as them becoming more anxious when separated from their owners and family.

Animals and COVID-19

Marissa Amorose, Reporter
October 19, 2021
After a brief celebration of the loss of masks from the May CDC guideline, each day Americans incorporate grabbing a mask and hand sanitizer before their daily commute as they conform to recent CDC regulations. With Cobb County becoming a hot-spot within the metro-Atlanta area, the need for protection along with the risk of infection increased ten-fold per individual.

Understanding Delta: readjusting to nationwide mask mandate

Zioni Moore, News Editor
August 17, 2021
The majority of students took part in virtual schooling during the 2020-21 school year, leading to a significant number of cafeteria employees resigning from their jobs. Due to lack of staff, all students dine in the main cafeteria, where overcrowding appears severely present, stressing out multiple NC parents and students alike, from the lack of social distancing to certain students’ testimonies of not finishing lunch.

NC’s cafeteria staff shortage

Erinn Gardner, Reporter
August 17, 2021
Why to take the vaccine

Why to take the vaccine

Elyssa Abbott and Lainey Devlin
January 30, 2021
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